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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Laval.
City Score #76 (2022) → #61 (2025)
Laval sits at City Score rank #61 with a standing of 54%, from 8 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. Rising 15 places versus 2022 (#76 → #61).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #18 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #37 of 117 at 126 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #129 of 172 (8.87 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Laval.
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Where Laval sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Laval introduces itself as an island before it introduces itself as a suburb. Découvrez votre île is the municipal home line, and Lavallois lean on that geography when they talk about parks, pools, and traffic in the same breath. Centre de la Nature is the big green lung, the place outdoor cinema nights and eco workshops show up on the city calendar. Smaller parks keep their own names in the summer grid: Parc Champfleury, Parc Pie-X, Parc des Saules, Parc Rodolphe-Lavoie, and Parc du Royal-22e-Régiment. That list matters because Laval residents navigate by park names as readily as by arterial roads.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Laval sits at rank 89 of 125. The hometown read stays island-first: not downtown Montreal, not a generic North Shore label, but a city that keeps saying île out loud and then sends you to Centre de la Nature when you need proof. Island first, then parks, then the hospital file: that order is the local desk version of Laval.
Drawn from Ville de Laval, Centre de la Nature.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Composite · OpenStats
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Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016–2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0–1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, mill rates, and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Laval in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Laval in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Ville de Laval's home hero sells the place as an island: Découvrez votre île.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Mon Dossier is the branded citizen account gateway on laval.ca.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
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